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To: El Jigue
I wish I could tell you, but the truth is that I'm not that familiar with the insiders at Wikipedia, and the things that I have learned about them I've gleaned from this website.

I do know that there are a few Wikipedians who are also Protest Warriors-I know most of them-who try their best to combat the lies, misinformation, and general ignorance that predominates over there.

It seems like a Sisyphean task, if you ask me.

I've edited a few egregiously wrong Wikis-one on Ralph Ellison, which was riddled with errors, including the absurd assertion that he was a critical part of the Harlem Renaissance-but trying to alter the ingrained Marxist tendencies of Wikipedia seems to be a fruitless endeavor.

I think a better course is to expose that website for what it is, and attempt to educate people who are misled into believing that it is the equivalent of a normal, standard encyclopedia.

54 posted on 04/15/2006 3:01:04 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

Sorry for double submitting I had gone out for a walk with my wife and did not realize that the message had already been sent/


Here is an example of Wikipedia nonsense (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cuba)



They are attacking "Adam" who is trying to tell them that Cuba is not democratic. Here is the end of one of Scott Grayban's attacks:

"Anyone realize this yet or not that there are only 3 words that is making this article POV ? Communist, Socialist, and Democracy. The same 3 words that comminusts and socialist use in there anti-american propaganda and the same 3 words used in American propaganda. Have we not learned anything at all? Adam is bent on labeling Cuba as a communist state just like the US. Government does. Cuba use the samething in order to provoke hate towards the US. See anything wrong at all ? No one will be happy until 1 is dead and the other wins. Samething for the opposite countries. --Scott Grayban 02:18, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

And I 100% oppose that Adam be allowed to edit on this article seeing that his post on my talk page[18] absolutely proves his willing to do anything to hurt the colabrative NPOV working on this article. --Scott Grayban 02:22, 16 April 2006 (UTC)"


Agreed exposing them is the only way.


57 posted on 04/15/2006 8:24:33 PM PDT by El Jigue (Who is Scott Grayban)
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